Integrated: 8371248: Crash in -Xdoclint with invalid @link

[Jan Lahoda]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:26:00 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlahoda at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The attribution of javadoc links fails with an NPE if the link is like `{@link double.NAN Bad}` - it tries to dereference the `double`, which obviously cannot work.
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> This PR mostly just adds checks that will stop the attribution, and return `null`.
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> Note that for `{@link double Class}` the existing code does not crash and returns the internal a `TypeElement` corresponding to the `double`. This is a weird quirk of this API, and is preserved with this PR (although a test is added for it into `test/langtools/tools/javac/doctree/ReferenceTest.java`).

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 5d3e73b9
Author:    Jan Lahoda <jlahoda at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/5d3e73b9e512b55cdf554158b19a4ec642dc1f1a
Stats:     33 lines in 3 files changed: 30 ins; 0 del; 3 mod

8371248: Crash in -Xdoclint with invalid @link

Reviewed-by: hannesw, vromero

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28272